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Câmp de maci (2020)
A familiar and disturbing reality
It is scary to see the Romanian reality that some of us know so well displayed on screen in such strong tones. For me, being a victim of a similar assault as portrayed in the movie, it was familiar and disturbing, at the same time. I commend the creators of this movie for their courage. The Romanian society still is exactly as we see it on screen.
Total Recall (1990)
Elon Musk's utopia
The Mars life and industry in Total Recall is exactly what Elon Musk would create. Sell air, provide brain implants. Oh, and drive those ugly cars that resemble the unbreakable truck.
Monstri. (2019)
A homophobic undercurrent
Many professional critics discuss the aspect of "compromise" in the relationship between the main characters, and between the two protagonists and other minor characters. But I have to make an observation, that - somehow - seemed to have escaped the keen eye of the critics.
The gay relationships in the movie (one in front of the camera, one narrated, and the other one just mentioned) amount to a gruesome caricature. The gay hookup scene is full of cringe details, taken from reality, but elevated to a scale which makes the interactions implausible. The narrated gay relationship is another example of a deceit, lies, cynicism, and emotional corruption. And the third one - the "love of his life" - sounds like a joke.
What is the portrait of the gay man in this movie? Lies, manipulations, cowardice, forever living in the closet, full of self-hatred, and particularly apt for ruining marriages - his own and everyone else's. Even for Romania in 2019, this portrait is the exception, not the rule. But most importantly, it highlights the deep homophobic undercurrent of this movie. Because the gay men in this movie do not have anything authentic and they apparently do not search for that. This movie is more like a morality tale, and in that it is a total failure.
(M)uchenik (2016)
"Literal interpretation of Holy Scriptures is outright insanity"
This is the main idea of this film, which is a parable and a satire at the same time. The main character is a text-book case of a psychotic person, with all relevant schizophrenia symptoms (visual hallucinations, illusion of grandeur, paranoid ideas). Many of the scenes actually describe psychotic crises (getting undressed, wearing the ape costume, carrying the cross, abusing his friend, killing him etc.). So this is actually simple to understand. But the movie goes beyond that. The parable aspect of the film is that no one (neither the biology teacher) understands the madness of this character, and treat him like a normal person (or at least in acceptable terms). They all come into argument with him, support or contradict his delirious ideas, and finally tolerate his fundamentalist way of thinking (which is the product of mental disease). Of course the situation is not realistic; in the normal world, the person would be immediately taken to a hospital. But the point that the director is trying to make is that fundamentalist ideas are a delirium that is contagious, that other people tend to lose their critical thinking, that science can not withstand the attack of religious ideas and that normal people can actually become victims when the liberal values are dismissed. A beautiful, heart-breaking movie about how society's values can be lost, along with sanity, love and respect to each other.